Book Review: Looking for Alaska by John Green

Looking for Alaska by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps." -François Rabelais

"We are indestructible as we believe our selves to be." -Pudge

One of the books that I'll read over and over and over again!

"Some mysteries aren't meant to be solved." And it was a good reassurance, an enlightenment to me. Looking for Alaska proved to be a very promising and compelling. This book was written in a certain depth needed for personal, emotional growth. It was not mind-boggling at all but it was very emotionally stirring-- I laughed, I cried, I got mad and felt all other emotions while reading this beautiful book. It was so brilliant for it caters both mind and heart of the reader.
Although it took me a while, a week, to finish the entire thing, I felt so full of it like everything seethed within me. I am enlightened just like Banzan. Laughs.

This is my second book of Green and I would say that I like his style. Like what he did in Fault, he made a pretty sum-it-all-up in the end. Everything was just right and it worked perfectly for me. I love Green's point for this book, that we, teenagers, are balls of energy that are indestructible. And he is damn right that it's essential that we must learn not forget that as we grow up because as he has observed, adults are forgetting our capabilities and they tend to belittle us for we are young. That hit straight to my heart.


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Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It felt like it was never enough, that I have not read Fault in our Stars enough. In the end, I just settled with the thought, "this is an example of impasse because I'm trying to get a definite understanding of how and why life happens." I'll never get enough of this book and truth be told, I want to read it, again and again just like how Hazel reads An Imperial Affliction. Funny.

Damn it, I'm just a spilling faucet. Fault in our Stars is definitely a God-given gift to all of us who must remember that to matter doesn't mean to make things that matter, we just need to live. This three-hundred-and-thirteen-page-book is made out of sheer genius and it has brought all these raw emotions stored, deep inside you and transform them into coherent laughters, upheavals, groans and tears. It's a book I'll cherish for the rest of my sanity. It stirred so much inside me and I felt so alive after reading it. Now, I felt like I am forever in need of John Green's view of the world.

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To be honest, my entire emotion cannot be materialized into words at the moment because I'll end up ranting, that's for sure and I do not want that to happen. Me ranting would be like this:
I'm so constricted like my airways to what my belief is, is blocked at the moment. I felt so shunned.


Ok. I have to settle my self now. A very awesome book. I came to meet my new literary heroes-slash-inspirations. Thank you, John Green.

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Book Review: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This contemporary, young adult novel of Rainbow Rowell depicts how two misfits find their solitary place in each other. It is not an entirely unique story, truth be told. Eleanor lives a pretty fucked up life and Park has his own issues. A typical teenager in America thing; but even though I said that, I would not lie and I'll say with a loud voice that this is a good book.
It reminded me about lots of things. Cliched as it may sound but this book is a good reminder of how weird love can be-- the power of love. Their love is bittersweet and I am warning you that reading from this point on would entail some spoiler...

What struck me the most in this book was the part when they were about to part; when Park reminisce the love of his parents for each other. Let me quote my favorite line during this part. Park was thinking, "What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that?... Someone you can love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away?" You see, Park's mom is Korean and his dad is American and it reminded me of how amazing these kind of couples find each other-- chance, fate, magic of love. It's amazing.

And truth time: I can see my self in Eleanor's shoes. Her indifference to the world is so familiar to me and it felt like I would have the same everything that she felt when she first realized she was inlove with Park, who was her first everything. Maybe it's because I never had a boyfriend before that's why I'm saying these things. *Laughs*

All in all, I like this book because although, there's nothing so special in it, it made me think about life, again, in general. It's not a waste of time so I'd be happy to give it a thumbs up! Add to that, the alternating Eleanor and Park's view of the story helped me in setting the mood. It made me realize that this kind of setting appeals to me because I get to understand how the story builds in the head of both leads. The ending is a great hanger also so I was so shocked to read the acknowledgement. I though it came too soon! *Laughs*

For the parting quote: *I'm so affected with this one that I have to instagram it. HAHA*

Park said, "I just can't believe that life would give us to each other and then take it back."
-- It was depressing enough, that said but his positivity makes him so admirable. He then said this, "But it's up to us... It's up to us not to lose this."

Hooray for true love!

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